Predictive Coding Is a New Approach to Perception

The current paradigm is predictive coding, which is it's very much relates to active inference. So in very, very simple terms, what it says is that brains are not passive organs. And instead of bottom up, we have bottom up and top down, processes continuously working. The idea is that the brain, instead of processing information that comes from bottom up, the brain is actively making predictions about what is the most likely case of what it is proceeding in the world. It's almost like it's sending out a model of, oh, I think this is the case. And then what comes, so the causes of what is perceived, are going to inform that model about how correct the model

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